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If you expect a physician to help you, you must lay bare your wound. — Boethius

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If you expect a physician to help you, you must lay bare your wound.

In the original Latin

Si operam medicantis exspectas, oportet uulnus detegas.

Boethius
The Consolation of Philosophy · 523
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Topic
Vulnerability
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Philosophical literature
Time
523Middle Ages
Person
Boethius
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Current citation
Boethius. The Consolation of Philosophy, translated by Victor Watts. Penguin Classics, 1999, bk. 1, poem 4.
Original citation
Boethius. De Consolatione Philosophiae [On the Consolation of Philosophy]. 524, bk. 1, poem 4.

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